09:37 | GTX 1080 Ti Revival Rumors Are False
Just as a quick update: There was a story circulating this past week about the GTX 1080 Ti allegedly being revived, particularly by EVGA, as a means to quell some of the shortage concerns. We called EVGA and asked if the 1080 Ti was getting remade, and the official answer was “no, it is not being remade. The 1080 Ti is no longer in production.” The unofficial answer when we first posed the question was “HAHA! No.” Sorry to shoot that one down for 1080 Ti fans.
10:52 | Hong Kong Customs Seized Smuggled GPUs
Hong Kong news station TVB News reported on the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department seizing a cache of 300 “unidentified” graphics cards, which was part of a much larger haul that was intercepted from a Chinese smuggling ring. The smuggling run included other technology products, with TVB primarily showing cell phones, video cards, and trays upon trays of RAM. We’d be open to shipping the Hong Kong customs department
Don Lynn | Mobile Devices | Wed, Jun 2 2010 5:06 PM CDT
Apple has created a lot of waves by announcing that as of June 7th, the days of the unlimited data plans for iPhones and iPads are over. Under their old plan, a $30 charge brought you all the Youtube Clips, movie streams, and downloads your device could handle. The new plans shake down as you see below:
If you go over on the 200mb plan, you are charged $15 for another 200mb. For the Data Pro plan, overages cost $10 per GB you use.
However, this isn t the only thing with Apple device users up in arms. The new tethering option that iPhone and IPad users were looking forward to is getting a change. Before, tethering cost $30 a month for 5GB of extra tethering data on top of your regular data usage. Now, tethering is only $20, but counts against your 2GB of usage.
Cameron Wilmot | Motherboards | Wed, Jun 2 2010 5:34 AM CDT
COMPUTEX Taipei 2010 - Last week we visited ASRock who gave us an exclusive look at some of its new technologies including the Vision 3D HTPC and AIWI, but one thing we didn t have time to check out when we went to their office was an interesting new feature that will be bundled for free in ASRock s new P55 Extreme3 motherboard package.
ASRock has developed a simple yet smart little device that allows users to easily add two USB 3.0 ports to the front of their case. The device is really just a small bracket that fits into a spare FDD-sized opening at the front of your case and then a cable from the bracket runs to one of the USB 3.0 pin connectors on supported ASRock motherboards.
Cameron Wilmot | Video Cards | Thu, Jun 3 2010 11:36 AM CDT
COMPUTEX Taipei 2010 - AMD has being pushing the whole Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming thing for a good while now and despite some minor connectivity issues, it has been accepted with generally lots of excitement in the industry.
First up AMD launched Eyefinity with three monitor support, but now the latest video cards are able to support up to six monitors - and 12 in the case of a solution from PowerColor. We walked by the AMD booth today and then of just walking past it like most booths, I stopped and was really impressed with the dual Eyefinity6 setup that the folks over at AMD prepared for the show. AMD had its booth setup in a way so that folks could sit down and watch people race each other on the big screen in Dirt 2. Super cool.
Chris Ramseyer | Storage | Wed, Jun 2 2010 5:51 AM CDT
COMPUTEX Taipei 2010 - Indilinx, a leader in consumer performance solid state controllers has a product that we have all been waiting to see. Code Named Jet Stream, this SATA 6G controller was once thought to be hitting e-tail shelves in early 2010 but has been pushed back to 2011, possibly late 2011.
Replacing the 16 channel Jet Stream in 2010 will be Barefoot 2, a product we know little about. Barefoot 2 will be an 8 channel controller with a maximum capacity of 512GB and wellthat is really all I have at this time other than 2010 is the ETA and the words very soon came to the surface a few times.